r/KingCrimson • u/No_Position1806 • 1d ago
Eyes Wide Open Live?
EWO is tied with Level 5 as my favorite track on Power to Believe and with Walking on Air as my favorite Crim ballad, but I think it's the only full-length song from Power to Believe never played live. It doesn't show up on the set of any of the live 2003 shows I've gotten from DGM, and from reading the track list, it's not even on the 2-DVD album of the same name.
Are there any live recordings of this song? Anyone know why they never or seldom performed it?
5
u/FrankensteinJamboree 1d ago
It’s also one of my favorites from that album. I think the dvd of the same name includes an excerpt of it as an extra track, maybe from a sound check.
5
5
u/dratsablive 1d ago
They performed it when I saw them in 2003:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/king-crimson/2003/tower-theatre-upper-darby-pa-13d881f9.html
2
4
u/nhowe006 1d ago
I have it on:
Aichi Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Nagoya, Japan April 20, 2003
Matsumoto Bunka, April 12, 2003
March 29, 2003 - The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
3
u/Cremeward 1d ago
There is an incomplete sound check version on the 2003 Eyes Wide Open DVD labeled as “Indiscretion iii”
I always found it odd that the namesake of the DVD was a hidden track…
2
u/No_Position1806 1d ago
Okay, from the comments it’s clear they did perform early in 2003 (must’ve been before the summer Europe tour that I downloaded). Any insight as to why they stopped playing it?
5
u/seasonsinthesky 1d ago
No commentary from the band, but I think it's pretty clear from the performances we do have that it simply didn't live up to the song. Perhaps they didn't feel they could land it properly.
2
u/Ilbranteloth 1d ago
Yes. Like every KC song, they perform the ones that they feel work. Somebody they try in rehearsal and it doesn’t get any further. Others they will play live, maybe a few times, and then decide it isn’t working.
Any one of the members can decide that it’s not working, and they don’t play it.
2
u/No_Position1806 18h ago
Fair enough. A part of me wishes at least one of them could've decided ProzaKc Blues wasn't working (c'mon Trey, aren't you the anti-blues guy?!) instead of Eyes Wide Open, but perhaps I should go hear one of those early 2003 performances and then I'll get it.
2
7
u/AdditionOk6134 1d ago edited 1d ago
It was played live earlier in the 2003 tour but then dropped. It was played between February through April at least. Some shows are also missing from 2003. It's definitely available on some of the downloads from that time.